[GKrotkov]

Well, here's a selfish one:
All of the Springside-Chestnut Hill district. Team 1712 rode our coopertition points strategy to the 5th seed, and had to put together a pick list. This was only the 2nd time I had to do this as 1712's scouting lead, but I thought that we had done a pretty solid job*. Curiously, we ended up selecting two teams that we had allied with at SCH 2014: 4373 and 3974. At SCH 2014, that alliance pulled off a 3-match upset of the #1 alliance and took the eventual winners of the event to 3 matches, but lost. Note, the captain of that alliance was FRC 225, TechFire. Back to SCH 2015: TechFire had ranked #1 and looked to be in prime position to take the event without much challenge. As I walked off the field after alliance selection, I mentioned to Dawgma's programming lead (now co-captain) that "I hope we get the chance to lose to TechFire again, 'cause at least that would mean we make finals." As it turned out, our scouting was better than just solid: 4373 and 3974 were on point. As one of my more dedicated scouts put it: "4373 and 3974 have big backpacks - they can fit our entire team." I don't have the paper on me at the moment, but I remember doing a manual scoring for each team after the event, and it showed 1712 actually contributing least to our alliance (in terms of straight points, ignoring HP noodles). 3974 and 4373 were so good, in fact, that they ended up bringing Dawgma all the way on our first trip to the finals in team history. My wish had come true; we had the honor of losing to 225, 1218, and 204 in the finals.

* seeing my mentors figure stuff about how alliance selection would shake out in <5 seconds that would take me minutes, if I had ever been able to put it together, was downright inspiring, by the way.

Some less selfish ones:
1) Seeing 1023's alliance make finals on Archimedes after a 43 point match was shocking. I can't think of a more stunning reversal.
2) Team 1089, 365, and 423, the 6th alliance at MAR Champs, coming ever so close to the semifinals, with an alliance based on 1089 capping 423/365's stacks. I have a soft spot for teams that play this game that way - I so wanted specialists to be viable for this game, but it just didn't happen.
3) Looking back at this strategically deep game and seeing that more of its potential was realized than we think, from non-six stack teams being highly competitive (see 1218's champs alliance), to cappers mattering (see 27's champs alliance), to alliances w/o can dominance being competitive on Einstein (Archimedes champs).